Michelle Day

About Michelle Day

Michelle Day is essentially a landscape artist who depicts the splendor of the Australian Landscape in a passionate and emotive way. She does not copy, but interprets nature. Her tones and texture create works of immense depth and feeling.

Using oilsticks and dry pigment in her drawings, or oil paintings textured with wax and other mediums, Michelle represents her own close affinity to the earth and particularly the land in which she was raised.

Layers are applied and scraped back to reveal what lies beneath as if releasing a memory of past times.

This is her journey, a self portrait that reflects the thoughts and changes, not just of the land but of her inner self. Dispossession, the pain of lost species and the damage done by man highlight the need for a new beginning and a spiritual connection with the land.

Later works see her drawn toward the protective guise of the sky where new moods and feelings are borne. This great expanse above, so splendid in its glory, yet still vulnerable to man, has captured the interest of this dedicated and talented artist.

Michelle is currently exhibiting at Manyung Gallery, Mt. Eliza and has scheduled a further exhibition at Goya Gallery, Southbank, Melbourne, from Sept 4th to Sept 22nd.

For more on Michelle Day see
www.michelle-day.com